JAKES POV

I wake up and my head is fucking pounding.

Ow.

I try to bring my hand up to my head, but I can't.

Little fuckers.

My eyes don't dare to open and my ears won't let me hear a thing.

Silence and Darkness.

Yay.

Warmth surges through my hand, soft skin against a needle in my damn hand.

"Lucky?" No one answers me. Of course.

"Lucky?!" I shout again, the warmth leaving my hand.

"No! Please come back! Don't leave me alone!!" My ears slowly start to work, my eyes opening the slightest, the bright lights blinding me.

"JAKE!!" Jack is right next to my ear and it scares me.

I scream, wanting to put a pillow over my face.

Lacey and Hunter crawl on top of me, putting their little hands on my chest, crying, "UNCLE JAKE GET UP!!!"

I pull against the restraints, wishing I could just...UGH!!!

Lacey and Hunter race off of me, Jack and Mark moving on to the side of me, "Hey, you need to chill out, okay? I promise you're fine." Jack's voice is low and it scares me.

My heart skips a few beats and it makes the monitor bleep.

"Is Uncle Jake going to be okay?..." I can hear Lacey's hushed voice against the sea of noise.

"Honey, he'll be just fine." Lucky's voice filters through my head and everything stops.

People rush around me, pushing Jack away from me.

"HE'S FLATLINING!!"

"UNCLE JAKE!!!"

"JAKEY!!!"

I smile as darkness consumes everything, my muscles relaxing and my breathing becomes level.

"I love you."

You're Cute As Hell, But I'm Glancing At Your Wrist.

Talking Is Cheap And Your Lies Were Expensive, And God Only Knows When We'll Come To Our Senses.

I don't know why I feed on emotion
There's a stomach inside my brain
I don't wanna be heard
I want to be listened to
Does it bother anyone else
That someone else has your name?
Does it bother anyone else
That someone else has your name, your name?

Nobody thinks what I think,
Nobody dreams when they blink
Think things on the brink of blasphemy
I'm my own shrink
Think things are after me, my catastrophe
At my kitchen sink,
You don't know what that means
Because a kitchen sink to you
Is not a kitchen sink to me, OK friend?
Are you searching for purpose?
Then write something, yeah it might be worthless
Then paint something then, it might be wordless
Pointless curses, nonsense verses
You'll see purpose start to surface
No one else is dealing with your demons
Meaning maybe defeating them
Could be the beginning of your meaning, friend.

You say things with your mouth
Cobwebs and flies come out
I hear a second voice behind your tongue somehow
Luckily I can read your mind
Flies and cobwebs unwind
They will not take you down
They will not cast you out, out.

Dear friend, here we are again pretending
To understand how you think your world is ending
Sending signals and red flags in waves
It's hard to tell the difference between blood and water these days
I'll pray that one day you see
The only difference between life and dying
Is one is trying, that's all we're gonna do
So try to love me and I'll try to save you.

I feel for you, but when did you believe you were alone?
You say that spiders crawled inside and made themselves a home
Where light once was

Petrified of who you are and who you have become
You will hide from everyone, denying you need someone
To exterminate your bones

Friend, please remove your hands from
Over your eyes for me
I know you want to leave but
Friend, please don't take your life away from me